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If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left. — Peter Singer

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good. — Benjamin Franklin

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. — Rowan Williams

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. — Cornel West

You can rob from the poor to give to the rich. It's legal. — Marty Rubin

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice. — Isabel Allende

Be kind to the poor,
caring to widows,
and just to all. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity. — Pope Pius X

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin. — Apollonius Of Tyana

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. — King Solomon

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable. — Timothy Keller

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. — Rigoberta Menchu

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing. — Nellie L. McClung

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it. — Henry Demarest Lloyd

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease. — Baha'u'llah

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us. — Pope Francis

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. — N. T. Wright

Justice without strength isn't justice at all. — Shinjirou

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice. — Pope Francis

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice. — Lactantius

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us. — Francis Of Assisi

It's only the poor who can't get away with murder. — Marty Rubin

The poor are too busy working to need justice. — Ted Danson

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. — Ronald Rolheiser

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is. — Howard Zinn

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises. — Mary Brave Bird

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed. — Lewis Tappan

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it. — Teresa Of Avila

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus